From capitalism to the collaborative commons - Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality2024-03-28T16:45:59Zhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/from-capitalism-to-the-collaborative-commons?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A75513&feed=yes&xn_auth=noGood new post by Bonnitta Roy…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-06-27:5301756:Comment:767392019-06-27T16:48:57.227ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Good…</span></p>
<p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Good</span> <a style="color: #2a669d; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" href="https://medium.com/perspectives-on-complexity/complex-potential-states-ab71951331ad">new post</a> <span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">by Bonnitta Roy on complex potential states. She uses process philosophy to challenge the limiting paradigm of complexity science, partly because it tries to explain everything in its own terms. Her suggestion is</span> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0em; line-height: 1.58; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">a shift from thinking in terms of adaptive pressure and escalating complexity, toward a more process philosophical view where systems are not bounded entities with agency that struggle to</span> <em class="kn" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">adapt</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0em; line-height: 1.58; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, but are construed as</span> <em class="kn" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">relational states</em> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0em; line-height: 1.58; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">composed by all agents that strive to</span> <em class="kn" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">advance</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0em; line-height: 1.58; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">." </span></span></span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"/><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0em; line-height: 1.58; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br/></span></span></span> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0em; line-height: 1.58; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The latter are potential states that have different possibilities that can cohere into actual occasions under the right conditions. Yet these potentials subsist the existence of actual occasions and continue to affect the latter. This is highly reminiscent of the discussion of convergent and divergent thought above, and indicative of what I'm calling hier(an)archical synplexity.</span></span></span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"/><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0em; line-height: 1.58; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br/></span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1);">T<span style="color: black;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0em; line-height: 1.58; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">his last quote highlights what I see as how the collaborative commons works through this process, in distinction from the enlightened heroes figuring it all out from their complex ivory towers which supposedly and hopefully 'trickles down' to the rest of us.</span></span></span></span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"/><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0em; line-height: 1.58; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br/></span></span></span> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: #000000; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0em; line-height: 1.58; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0em; line-height: 1.58; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">"In a world as diverse in people and rich in meanings as ours, big change might come from small acts by everyone operating everywhere in the contexts that already present themselves in their ordinary lives."</span></span></span></p> In Chapter One of The Listeni…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-05-19:5301756:Comment:769042019-05-19T16:40:03.943ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In Chapter One of…</span></p>
<p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In Chapter One of</span> <i style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a style="color: #2a669d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Society-Metamodern-Politics-Guides-ebook/dp/B074MKQ4LR">The Listening Society</a></i> <span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Freinacht defines the sociological 'center' pragmatically, more in terms of its dominant competitive functionality than some lame compromise between liberal and conservative. And this is particular to the Nordic countries where what he calls Green Social Liberalism has proven to work best, a worldview that has transcended and replaced its predecessors, a point I made in</span> <a style="color: #2a669d; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" href="http://integral-review.org/current_issue/vol-15-no-1-jan-2019/">my paper</a><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"/><br style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"/><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"There is no 'center' in any strict, analytical sense. What we have is one victorious meta-ideology, one recipe for society that has beaten its competitors when it comes to functionality and rhetorical edge. It is this meta-ideology that is</span> <i style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">disguised</i> <span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">as a 'center,' as being the sensible, moderate form of politics. The 'middle' is a position that under other circumstances would have appeared as extreme. […] This meta-ideology is dominant simply because it is superior under the current economic, technological, socio-psychological, and historical circumstances. This doesn't give Green Social Liberalism any transcendental value or divine justification. It just happens to have a competitive edge under the current circumstances."</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"/><br style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"/><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">He also makes a point I made in my paper, that</span> <span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">this best to date system is necessary from which to launch the emerging system, what I call the Collaborative Commons. Elements of social democracy will set the stage for this emerging worldview that will transcend and replace it, but we need to at least come up to that worldview first before we can go beyond it. Hence we have a dual task: To reinstate a social democracy in the US, while also envisioning, supporting and implementing the Collaborative Commons as what's next.</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"/><br style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"/><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"How about taking a sober look at the new political landscape, and from there develop a new ideology based on the already dominant Green Social Liberalism? Can you take the full consequences of it--and raise it to a new and higher level? […] See 'the center' for what it is--the total victory on one ideology over all alternatives. And then use it. Break it's limits."</span></p> Ending climate change require…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-04-28:5301756:Comment:766012019-04-28T16:18:09.710ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p><a href="https://integralpostmetaphysicalnonduality.blogspot.com/2019/04/ending-climate-change-requires-end-of.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ending climate change</a> requires the end of capitalism, an excerpt:…</p>
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<p><a href="https://integralpostmetaphysicalnonduality.blogspot.com/2019/04/ending-climate-change-requires-end-of.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ending climate change</a> requires the end of capitalism, an excerpt:</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fef9f5; color: #121212; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"We will simply have to throw the kitchen sink at this. Policy tweaks such as a</span> <a title="" class="u-underline" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: #dcdcdc; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.06rem; color: #e05e00; cursor: pointer; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0.15s; transition-property: border-color; transition-timing-function: ease-out; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/7/20/17584376/carbon-tax-congress-republicans-cost-economy">carbon tax won’t do it</a><span style="background-color: #fef9f5; color: #121212; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">. We need to fundamentally re-evaluate our relationship to ownership, work and capital. The impact of a dramatic reconfiguration of the industrial economy require similarly large changes to the welfare state. Basic incomes, large-scale public works programmes, everything has to be on the table to ensure that the oncoming system shocks do not leave vast swathes of the global population starving and destitute. Perhaps even more fundamentally, we cannot continue to treat the welfare system as a tool for disciplining the supposedly idle underclasses. Our system must be reformed with a more humane view of worklessness, poverty and migration than we have now."</span></span><span style="background-color: #fef9f5; color: #121212; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br/></span></p>
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<p></p> Ruskoff's section on economic…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-04-18:5301756:Comment:764062019-04-18T15:12:02.153ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ruskoff's section on economics is a critique of capitalism. Capitalism is the underlying operating system driving our tech. Its very purpose…</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ruskoff's section on economics is a critique of capitalism. Capitalism is the underlying operating system driving our tech. Its very purpose is to extract wealth for shareholders at the expense of everyone else. Chartered monopolies (which grew into co</span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">rporations) and central currency were created to funnel wealth to the aristocratic capital owners and enslave the rest as part of its machine. It was feudalism on steroids. And constant growth is required to feed the machine, regardless of any human or environmental consequences. <br/><br/>Corporate person hood is the epitome of the machine over the human. They are like digital environments in that way, abstract and devoid of embodied humanity. Adam Smith saw this are realized that capital must be balanced with labor and the environment in order to avoid a purely capitalistic orientation of unending growth. <br/><br/>The only way the latter can be accomplished is through further abstraction. Derivatives were created to enhance growth but they are completely disconnected from concrete goods and services. They of course, in the form of worthless mortgage-backed securities, led to the financial crash.</span></span></p> Yep we've created a monster w…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-04-18:5301756:Comment:762082019-04-18T04:40:48.952ZTroy Wileyhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/TroyWiley
<p>Yep we've created a monster within our systems quadrant.…<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056496057?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056496057?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056496546?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056496546?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a></p>
<p>Yep we've created a monster within our systems quadrant.<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056496057?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056496057?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056496546?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056496546?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p> Chapter 33 of Ruskoff's Team…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-04-18:5301756:Comment:762072019-04-18T00:12:22.152ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g" style="font-family: inherit;">Chapter 33 of Ruskoff's Team Human on persuasive technology (PT) reminds me…</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g" style="font-family: inherit;">Chapter 33 of Ruskoff's Team Human on persuasive technology (PT) reminds me of my IR paper. A point in my paper is that typically unconscious engagement in the dominant socio-economic system, in this case capitalism, shapes our internal attitudes and opinions. The same is the case for PT, which is designed to get us to trust the platform when in fact what it provides us is sources that have paid to be highlighted. The sources that don’t pay get no promotion, hence we are presented with a self-reinforcing habit of buying ideas and products that don’t support open sourcing or shared information that might challenge the limited profit agenda. Our online and digital behavior unconsciously shapes our attitudes and opinions.</span></span></span></p> Mascolo notes that the "multi…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-04-03:5301756:Comment:765072019-04-03T15:34:20.557ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263752474_The_Concept_of_Domain_in_Developmental_Analyses_of_Hierarchical_Complexity" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mascolo…</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263752474_The_Concept_of_Domain_in_Developmental_Analyses_of_Hierarchical_Complexity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mascolo</a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> notes that the "multiple strands that weave in and out of each other" requiring "higher-order skills" of "constructive differentiation and inter-coordination of skill elements from diverse task domains" is much more in line with my theurjism 'hier</span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(an)archical synplexity,' and Edwards' et al notion of syntegrity. It is the way the collaborative commons operates, a different organizing paradigm.</span></span></p> To end climate chaos we must…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-03-19:5301756:Comment:757372019-03-19T15:47:05.357ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>To end climate chaos we must end capitalism. My paper agrees with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/18/ending-climate-change-end-capitalism?fbclid=IwAR2B0_DjkcNTzMzOd7N4BruwvDN1Nj_CWSOGigLqCod2Ve3ppAa6FahZ028" rel="noopener" target="_blank">this</a> assessment.</p>
<p>"We need to fundamentally re-evaluate our relationship to ownership, work and capital. The impact of a dramatic reconfiguration of the industrial economy require similarly large changes to the welfare…</p>
<p>To end climate chaos we must end capitalism. My paper agrees with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/18/ending-climate-change-end-capitalism?fbclid=IwAR2B0_DjkcNTzMzOd7N4BruwvDN1Nj_CWSOGigLqCod2Ve3ppAa6FahZ028" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this</a> assessment.</p>
<p>"We need to fundamentally re-evaluate our relationship to ownership, work and capital. The impact of a dramatic reconfiguration of the industrial economy require similarly large changes to the welfare state. Basic incomes, large-scale public works programmes, everything has to be on the table to ensure that the oncoming system shocks do not leave vast swathes of the global population starving and destitute. Perhaps even more fundamentally, we cannot continue to treat the welfare system as a tool for disciplining the supposedly idle underclasses. Our system must be reformed with a more humane view of worklessness, poverty and migration than we have now."</p>
<p>"This is reality versus the vested interests of the powerful. Any meaningful policy has to upset the established power base and the political donor class. Any policy that doesn’t upset these people will be useless. To pretend that we can compromise our way through this while we wait for a magical, technological bullet that will keep temperatures down without costing us anything is beyond willful ignorance now. It is a question of basic morality."</p> This video is in line with my…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-03-19:5301756:Comment:757362019-03-19T15:44:31.733ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p><a href="https://integralpostmetaphysicalnonduality.blogspot.com/2019/03/giridharadas-dems-capitulated-to-swamp.html?fbclid=IwAR1btQME9Ih9k6Lyv_TVzsj1bSdYpGx0T_a9MR2OfVa0sPYhVIN9eCOwoQQ" rel="noopener" target="_blank">This…</a></p>
<p><a href="https://integralpostmetaphysicalnonduality.blogspot.com/2019/03/giridharadas-dems-capitulated-to-swamp.html?fbclid=IwAR1btQME9Ih9k6Lyv_TVzsj1bSdYpGx0T_a9MR2OfVa0sPYhVIN9eCOwoQQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This</a> <span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">video is in line with my paper's criticism of conscious capitalism. Dems capitulated to the swamp. </span>And that ain't going to cut it. Old school Dems assumed corporate capitalism was a given and with good intentions thought with some tweaks that things could get better within it. However the new progressives Dems, to keep winning and to effect real change, have to fight that corrupt system, take names and kick asses, because the current capitalistic system is the problem.</p>
<p></p> I discussed this in my paper,…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-03-10:5301756:Comment:753632019-03-10T16:50:03.675ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="UFICommentBody" style="font-family: inherit;">I discussed this in my paper, how the 'conscious capitalism' of Whole Foods would…</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="UFICommentBody" style="font-family: inherit;">I discussed this in my paper, how the 'conscious capitalism' of Whole Foods would fall prey to Amazon's degenerate capitalism, thereby undermining its own proclaimed conscious upgrading of a defunct system: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/06/whole-foods-amazon-cuts-minimum-wage-workers-hours-changes?fbclid=IwAR1_oXaC30LktPWlDjK26Bota5V3XIp4JmDyH_ddSK5GvJPhWDdzPssro-I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whole Foods</a> cuts worker hours after Amazon introduces minimum wage.</span></span></span></p>